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you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about talking to one another. and he told them that the u.s. administration is growing alarmed that some of these recent terrorist attacks we've seen aimed at government institutions-- army, police, municipal buildings-- are being encouraged by this political vacuum. so he talked you are the i do both of them. he said to maliki, "look, no one sells going to accept you as prime minister unless you give up some of the power you've accrued to yourself while prime minister." for instance, he has this 56th brigade and it's basically an army brigade
you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about...
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he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are flarl fits are for their business model. one of the best cities and the biggest one they don't yet fly to is atlanta so it's no coincidence that air tran, biggest city is atlanta and this will put southwest into atlanta in a big way. and it really positions southwest to go back to a position of growth by acquiring air tran and eventually incorporating if into its network. >> and there are roar cities that right now southwest isn't in, aren't there sm. >> there are about 37 that air tran flies to that southwest doesn't go to. so sout
he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are...
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she joins us from new york. welcome. >> thank you, gwen. >> ifill: arianna, i look at the cover of your book and i think to myself america is still the world's most prosperous nation. how do you define "third world"? >> well, i know it's a jarring phrase, gwen, but i chose it deliberatery because i felt that we needed a warning. we needed to sort of sound the alarm about the trajectory we're arm about the middle-class crumbling. and the middle-class is the foundation not just of our democracy and our prosperity but our political stability. and so as the middle-class is crumbling, we really have a certain time, a window during which we can course correct and turn things around. and i end the book on an optimistic note that we can do that, but only if we bring a sense of urgency to the undertaking. >> ifill: you're a political animal, when you say the middle-class is crumbling, what are the events you would say led us to this point? >> well, it has been going on for about 30 years. it didn't just happen because of
she joins us from new york. welcome. >> thank you, gwen. >> ifill: arianna, i look at the cover of your book and i think to myself america is still the world's most prosperous nation. how do you define "third world"? >> well, i know it's a jarring phrase, gwen, but i chose it deliberatery because i felt that we needed a warning. we needed to sort of sound the alarm about the trajectory we're arm about the middle-class crumbling. and the middle-class is the foundation...
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abbas, thank you for traveling from stanford university to join us this morning. we thank you very much. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this month to the lowest point since february. and former president jimmy carter was taken to a cleveland hospital after he got sick on a flight from atlanta. a grandson said he had a "stomach bug." and to hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: if you're weighing whether to rent or buy a home, we rounded up online calculators to help you sort through the pros and cons. that's on the rundown. judy woodruff talks to the co- author of a new book that looks at the "up" side of earmarks. are they good for u.s. democracy? >> brown: and
they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this...
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or regulate us out of the market. and that the drilling rigs will leave. the labor force will leave. and we will be left with a fishing village. >> which doesn't support a whole lot of people. >> does not . it's a scary prospect. if we can't put our oil patch to work what is going to be left of south louisiana, even places like houston, texas. it's not just morgan city or south louisiana concern. it's a united states concern. >> i could tell the beach wasn't as crowded. the restaurants weren't as crowded. >> reporter: morgan city mayor tim moth says the town is determined not let any of this put a damper on shat riferp and petroleum festival. >> there was that poll done earlier this year that said louisiana is the happiest state in the nation. and i think that is reflective of our community too. certainly things like the moratorium caused some concern but you get to kind of put some of that aside for a weekend like this and kind of just enjoy each other's company, enjoy the music. enjoy the food. >> moth and others in
or regulate us out of the market. and that the drilling rigs will leave. the labor force will leave. and we will be left with a fishing village. >> which doesn't support a whole lot of people. >> does not . it's a scary prospect. if we can't put our oil patch to work what is going to be left of south louisiana, even places like houston, texas. it's not just morgan city or south louisiana concern. it's a united states concern. >> i could tell the beach wasn't as crowded. the...
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she was released after using her mother's house as bail. and i'm joined by haleh esfandiari, the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. and karim sadjadpour, an associate at the carnegie endowment for international - elcome to both you. kareem, starting with you, what's known about what led to the release today? >> i think a few points worth mentioning. first is that there's no evidence against these three young hikers. the iranian government detained them august of 2009. they stopped interrogating them a couple months after their detention so i think when you talk to people connected to their lawyers in tehran, it's clear that the government didn't have any evidence against them. second, she has a health concern. she found a lump on her breast. i think the regime certainly didn't want to be put in a position where they would be responsible for her health. i'm not convinced that president ahmadinejad was responsible for her release, but i am convinced he will take credit for her release
she was released after using her mother's house as bail. and i'm joined by haleh esfandiari, the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. and karim sadjadpour, an associate at the carnegie endowment for international - elcome to both you. kareem, starting with you, what's known about what led to the release today? >> i think a few points worth mentioning. first is that there's no evidence against these three young hikers. the iranian...
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caravalho wouldn't talk to us, but he told us by email that he was trying to help. we showed his memo to general chiarelli. >> were you aware of this memo before yesterday or today? >> no, i wasn't. i've asked my lawyers to look at it, okay, to make sure that we have not made this more restrictive than the army regulation. >> chiarelli says some soldiers with t.b.i.s have received purple hearts. but the pentagon told us they don't know how many and they don't know how many have been denied. >> i appreciate you bringing this to my attention, i will go down range and insure that i talk to them and let them know that they need to be more in line with the regulation. we asked officials at the pentagon what's the purple heart policy in afghanistan now that the fighting and explosions are shifting there. they said, they're revising the policy. meanwhile, the military says they're making progress. they've just opened a center to study traumatic brain injury and they've rolled out a new policy designed to improve diagnosis and treatment. but, for soldiers like michelle dyar
caravalho wouldn't talk to us, but he told us by email that he was trying to help. we showed his memo to general chiarelli. >> were you aware of this memo before yesterday or today? >> no, i wasn't. i've asked my lawyers to look at it, okay, to make sure that we have not made this more restrictive than the army regulation. >> chiarelli says some soldiers with t.b.i.s have received purple hearts. but the pentagon told us they don't know how many and they don't know how many...
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people think they can use them anywhere, any time. you see people using them anywhere any time. most cases very rudely. but the point is that you can't drive a car safely while you have a cell phone or a texting device in your hand. you simply can't because you're take your hands off the wheel for one thing and you're distracted for another thing. our statistics, we believe, are really the tip of the iceberg in terms of the real magnitude of this. >> woodruff: do you think the laws that we cited a minute ago are making any difference? >> i think enforcement is important. first of all you have to have good laws. there's a good law in washington d.c. and there's a good law in my home state of illinois, but enforcement is also very important. today while our distracted driving meeting was going on in washington, the washington d.c. policeality the direction of the chief were actually issuing tickets. they were sitting on a corner watching people, pulling them over, that were on a cell phone or texting. they wrote tickets today. that is the way that we will correct very dangerous be
people think they can use them anywhere, any time. you see people using them anywhere any time. most cases very rudely. but the point is that you can't drive a car safely while you have a cell phone or a texting device in your hand. you simply can't because you're take your hands off the wheel for one thing and you're distracted for another thing. our statistics, we believe, are really the tip of the iceberg in terms of the real magnitude of this. >> woodruff: do you think the laws that...
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two-thirds want us to leave. they still want a relationship and a partnership with us, but they want to claim their own sovereign ability to secure themselves. >> reporter: but you're not saying that the obama administration would absolutely refuse if six months from now, a new iraqi government said it would be helpful for us to-- >> it would be highly unlikely that we would even consider the idea of maintaining 50,000 troops indefinitely here in iraq. but we have committed and we will keep the commitment to the iraqi people and the government that all troops will be out by the end of next year. if they come forward and say, "we don't want you to do that. we want to you leave some troops to help us on a specific item," we'd, obviously, consider that. >> reporter: now, president obama noted last night he was keeping his campaign pledge. >> yes. >> reporter: what kind of credit do you expect voters to give your administration and the democrats in november on this point, that you're getting out of iraq, as you said
two-thirds want us to leave. they still want a relationship and a partnership with us, but they want to claim their own sovereign ability to secure themselves. >> reporter: but you're not saying that the obama administration would absolutely refuse if six months from now, a new iraqi government said it would be helpful for us to-- >> it would be highly unlikely that we would even consider the idea of maintaining 50,000 troops indefinitely here in iraq. but we have committed and we...
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he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't long remember. he was excessively modest in his own words. i can't imagine that this speech will be learned by elementary school kids. >> lehrer: just to not pick up on that. david, the idea that the the president, you know, this is a war without surrender , ceremonies, and that we've had a lot of those. is he essentially saying we have to get used to that? this is the way modern wars will be ... have been and will be. is that something.... >> not necessarily true. i mean yugoslavia there was a winner and a loser. i'm not sure he
he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't...
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scott worden, thank you for joining us. tell us what you saw this weekend during the voting. >> well, i was stationed in kabul as an observer. and i visited about ten different stations throughout the city, some in more rural areas, some right in the heart of town. and in the polling stations that i saw, there were relatively few problems. there were plenty of voters. the procedures went along smoothly. and really people were out to vote and were-- seemed to be happy with the process. >> ifill: so how was the turnout. i heard reports that turnout was supposed to be considered spotty. >> yes, i think that's true. certainly the areas that i was seeing had good security. they were right around kabul and there were very visible police presence around the city. so it is not surprising that the turnout was relatively good. i think most of the polling stations we saw were at least half full. however, as you know, the security situation in much of the country throughout the country was a lot worse. and that had a significant impact
scott worden, thank you for joining us. tell us what you saw this weekend during the voting. >> well, i was stationed in kabul as an observer. and i visited about ten different stations throughout the city, some in more rural areas, some right in the heart of town. and in the polling stations that i saw, there were relatively few problems. there were plenty of voters. the procedures went along smoothly. and really people were out to vote and were-- seemed to be happy with the process....
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of us. >> reporter: dr. roy is an engineer by training, but the project brought together cell biologists, material scientists, engineers and practicing physicians. >> by finding these right people together i think we can sort of take out these traditional ways of doing academic research in silos, but saying lets put our arms together and brains together and solve the problem collectively and for a project like this you absolutely need that to succeed. >> reporter: it's the same collaborative approach that scott johnson's myelin repair foundation is promoting teams of scientists working collaboratively to achieve common goal changing the model for how research works and solving the problem of multiple sclerosis that's challenged him for 34 years. >> and to be able to prevent others from going through that is something i'd like to do. but probably on a larger scale it's really about this model because i think that this model can be applied to any disease research. >> reporter: and of course there's no shortage
of us. >> reporter: dr. roy is an engineer by training, but the project brought together cell biologists, material scientists, engineers and practicing physicians. >> by finding these right people together i think we can sort of take out these traditional ways of doing academic research in silos, but saying lets put our arms together and brains together and solve the problem collectively and for a project like this you absolutely need that to succeed. >> reporter: it's the...
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thanks for being back with us. so what's this delay all about? >> well, the senate clearly doesn't want to get embroiled in this issue before the election. it's just too unpredictable and the story line for democrats is clean, as things stand now. they're making the case that republicans would block tax relief for the middle class to hold out for tax break force the wealthy. republicans, of course shall want to extend those tax cuts for everyone. and so it's easier in the view of democrats to push this until a lame duck session. the political situation will obviously be less intense then. but as you said, the house speaker today left open the possibility of forcing a vote. and that could get really interesting next week. >> woodruff: now why the different calculus in the senate and in the house. >> the calculus probably isn't different. the conventional wisdom still is that in the end the house will decide to go home and campaign without taking this vote. but there's no reason for speaker pelosi to relent right now when she thinks she's got repub
thanks for being back with us. so what's this delay all about? >> well, the senate clearly doesn't want to get embroiled in this issue before the election. it's just too unpredictable and the story line for democrats is clean, as things stand now. they're making the case that republicans would block tax relief for the middle class to hold out for tax break force the wealthy. republicans, of course shall want to extend those tax cuts for everyone. and so it's easier in the view of...
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most still tell us they approve of obama. most think the health care bill was the right thing to do. more tell us his policies are helping the economy than hurting it. so this isn't a disillusionment with obama that's... or the democratic party that's driving this. i think it's just a sense that this election the case hasn't been made this election is really important to younger voters yet. they don't say it at the same rate older folks do. >> woodruff: liz murphy, how would you respond to that? how important do you think young people see this election? and how do they respond to the president's admonition yesterday that young people need to understand it's important and he said in that interview with "rolling stone," inexcusable to sit this election out. >> i think it's unfortunate, but at least at penn state's campus there isn't this huge feeling that people need to head out and hit the polls and, you know, make their voice heard and vote. in 2008, there were two-hour wait lines to vote when obama came to speak it was like
most still tell us they approve of obama. most think the health care bill was the right thing to do. more tell us his policies are helping the economy than hurting it. so this isn't a disillusionment with obama that's... or the democratic party that's driving this. i think it's just a sense that this election the case hasn't been made this election is really important to younger voters yet. they don't say it at the same rate older folks do. >> woodruff: liz murphy, how would you respond...
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this used to be a road through sugar cane fields. >> ( translated ): the water did not let us take our things. the houses started crumbling down. we quickly took our kids and a commof animals, although we lost most of them. we saved our lives and came he here. >> reporter: through robust relief efforts, falah has been able to provide loyalty. >> these people reached my village and i see these are the people there working actually. really, i'm astonished by the work of these people. for this reason, i join these people. >> reporter: a retired pack taken army general says groups like falah and its predecessor used disaster relief as a recruiting method. >> they have a grass-root network which operates in several parts of the country. and so always actually, you find them, you know, the first ones, because the government takes much longer to respond. and as it is, this government has never been very efficient. >> i would say that basically it's th one or two others which have always been trying to assist or in the forefront whenever anything like this happens. >> reporter: and so rahman a
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you can outsource everything to us, and piece to us. we can integrate for you and provide you with the hardware and software to meet your needs. we can provide were you you with consumer insights, and your web capabilities and ecommerce capabilities. and i think, for the first time you're going to find some of these companies who haven't had very stiff competition, will go unnamed, will find h.p. at their doorstep. >> very good. i thank you. >> thank you. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: quarterly results from fedex, oracle and research in motion, along with the producer price index for august. treasury secretary timothy geithner testifies to a senate committee on exchange rate policies. also tomorrow, going after gamers. retailer gamestop launches a new online strategy to fend off bigger competition in the brick- and-mortar world. >> suzanne: u.p.s. is making waves in the shipping industry. today, the delivery giant launched a new ocean freight service. the move highlights the importance u.p.s. is placing on internation
you can outsource everything to us, and piece to us. we can integrate for you and provide you with the hardware and software to meet your needs. we can provide were you you with consumer insights, and your web capabilities and ecommerce capabilities. and i think, for the first time you're going to find some of these companies who haven't had very stiff competition, will go unnamed, will find h.p. at their doorstep. >> very good. i thank you. >> thank you. >> tom: here's what...
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stay with us. andrew ross sorkin is a columnist with "the new york times," whose book is out in paperback. it is called "too big to fail," about saving the financial system and themselves on wall street. good to have you back, sir. >> thank you for having me, tavis. tavis: of course, we all know that the president tomorrow is giving a speech. given what he had to say just days ago, yesterday, in fact, in milwaukee, what do we expect the president to say tomorrow? >> i think he is going to lay out a plan around how to spur business investment, how do we gain the economy's story back again, and he is going to be talking about infrastructure, how to build railroads, have jobs where people can get back to work, in the middle of america, that is what this is going to be about. he is also going to be talking about are indeed, research and development, a tax credit that is going to be made available -- but talking about are in d -- r&d. i think everyone will agree in the last several months, confidence is
stay with us. andrew ross sorkin is a columnist with "the new york times," whose book is out in paperback. it is called "too big to fail," about saving the financial system and themselves on wall street. good to have you back, sir. >> thank you for having me, tavis. tavis: of course, we all know that the president tomorrow is giving a speech. given what he had to say just days ago, yesterday, in fact, in milwaukee, what do we expect the president to say tomorrow?...
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tonight's "street critique" guest joins us from the bank of new york. it is jonathan chaplin at credit suisse. welcome to "nightly business report." >> thanks, tom. >> tom: what has been fueling this performance that we've seen over the last quarter or so in telecom? >> i think it is pretty straightforward. it is primarily one thing: it's yield. as investors get concerned about growth concerns for the economy, 6% dividend yield for at&t and verizon stocks looks in increasingly compelling. you've got a better prospect of getting a return from that yield than other sectors in the economy. >> tom: it sounds like quite a defensive play. but what about the growth expectations for this sector? are there any? >> it is not going to be a sector that grows the top line at g.d.p. or above for the foreseeable future. but this is a company that can -- an industry that can generate a fair amount of earnings growth in the low-growth economic environment. so with 1% revenue growth, telecom companies can generally knock out 3 3 plus percent earnings growth. >> tom: one
tonight's "street critique" guest joins us from the bank of new york. it is jonathan chaplin at credit suisse. welcome to "nightly business report." >> thanks, tom. >> tom: what has been fueling this performance that we've seen over the last quarter or so in telecom? >> i think it is pretty straightforward. it is primarily one thing: it's yield. as investors get concerned about growth concerns for the economy, 6% dividend yield for at&t and verizon...
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tom, those are the two words president obama used today to describe the pace of growth in the u.s. economy. and the economy was a big topic at his white house news conference this morning. >> tom: the other big topic, susie, was the president's announcement of his new top economic advisor. he's austan goolsbee. goolsbee has been on the president's economic team. he now becomes chairman of the white house council of economic advisors, replacing christina romer, who left to return to teaching. >> susie: the president used today's press briefing to push his agenda for reviving the economy, from tax breaks to a small business jobs bill. washington bureau chief darren gersh reports. >> reporter: the president today acknowledged what many americans know too well-- economic progress has been painfully slow. still, he urged voters to stay the course this on election day. >> if it was just a referendum on whether we have made the progress we need to, then people around the country will say that we are not there yet. if the election is about the policies that are going to move us forward, ve
tom, those are the two words president obama used today to describe the pace of growth in the u.s. economy. and the economy was a big topic at his white house news conference this morning. >> tom: the other big topic, susie, was the president's announcement of his new top economic advisor. he's austan goolsbee. goolsbee has been on the president's economic team. he now becomes chairman of the white house council of economic advisors, replacing christina romer, who left to return to...
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us? >> well, a lot of business schools on how to make money. i want to tell people if you run business, you have to run the value first. to surf the others, help the others, that's the key. because i... one of the things we believe is if you think about making money and this is the u.s. dollar, talk about hong kong dollars, nobody wants to make friends with these people. thing about how can you help people and create value for the others and then you'll get the money. this is how we succeed in china. and this is why you call us believe that. people say jack, your company is crazy. how can you do that. this is the way we run the business. and i think this is the way the 21st century. the other thing is also focused on quality and people. >> rose: say that again? >> your own people. because i think china, the best resource is not... it's the human brain. 1.3 billion people. if we develop their brains, that's got a lot of innovation. that's the best resourcings we could ever have so many you
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it will help us take pressure off our currency, help us stabilize interest rates it will help us show the markets that our tax rates aren't going to rise to unbelievable levels because we are getting our fiscal house in order. so if we locked in a plan to actually get our debt under control, that will actually help our economy right now because it will improve competence in the future of our economy. >> okay but are you prepared to spend money for stimulus in order to do something about unemployment. >> so i don't subscribe to the typical keynesian doctrine that you need to borrow and spend money to create jobsment we borrowed and spend 1.1 trillion when you add interest costs on the stimulus and we lost 2.6 million jobs since that legislation passed. i do think there are better things that the government could do to promote prosperity and create jobs. we ought to be growing at a very fast pace coming out of the kind-of-recession we are coming out of if we are coming out of it. i mean 81, the 72 recession. we were growing at about 68% at this time. i would argue that the reason we are
it will help us take pressure off our currency, help us stabilize interest rates it will help us show the markets that our tax rates aren't going to rise to unbelievable levels because we are getting our fiscal house in order. so if we locked in a plan to actually get our debt under control, that will actually help our economy right now because it will improve competence in the future of our economy. >> okay but are you prepared to spend money for stimulus in order to do something about...